Dave Woodcock

Dave Woodcock

Personal information
Full name	David Keith Woodcock [1]
Date of birth	(1966-10-13) 13 October 1966 (age 56) [1]
Place of birth	Shardlow, [1] England
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) [2]
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
	Sunderland
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1984–1985	Sunderland	0	(0)
1985–1987	Darlington	27	(2)
	Newcastle Blue Star
19??–1992	North Shields
1992–199?	Bridlington Town
	Bishop Auckland
Managerial career
1998–2007	Darlington Railway Athletic
200?–2009	Darlington Railway Athletic
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

David Keith Woodcock (born 13 October 1966) is an English former footballer who made 27 appearances in the Football League playing as a midfielder for Darlington in the mid-1980s.

Life and career

Woodcock was born in Shardlow, Derbyshire. ^[1] He began his football career as an apprentice with Sunderland, but left the club without having played for the first-team, and signed for Darlington, newly promoted to the Football League Third Division, in August 1985. Over the next two seasons, he played 27 league matches, around half of which as a substitute, and scored twice. ^[1] At the end of his second season, Darlington were relegated back to the Fourth Division, and Woodcock left.

He played non-league football for clubs including Newcastle Blue Star, ^[3] North Shields, Bridlington Town, ^[4] with whom he won the FA Vase and the Northern Premier League First Division title in 1993, ^[5] and Bishop Auckland.

His playing career was ended by a badly broken leg in the mid-1990s, and he resumed working in football in 1998 as manager of Darlington Railway Athletic, ^[6] where he stayed for ten of the next eleven years. ^[7]

References

1. Hugman, Barry J., ed. (1998). The PFA Premier & Football League Players' Records 1946–1998. Queen Anne Press. p. 593. ISBN   978-1-85291-585-8.
2. Dunk, Peter, ed. (1987). Rothmans Football Yearbook 1987–88. London: Queen Anne Press. p.  150. ISBN   978-0-356-14354-5.
3. "Darlington: 1946/47–1988/89 & 1990/91–2009/10". Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Players Database. Neil Brown. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
4. "Reforming of Club". North Shields F.C. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014.
5. Metcalf, Rupert (9 May 1993). "Football: Sweet solo by Radford". Independent on Sunday. London. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
6. "RA are on the right track". The Northern Echo. Darlington. 14 February 2003. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
7. "History". Darlington Railway Athletic F.C. Archived from the original on 23 March 2016. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
   "Local football: Determined RCA vow to avoid complacency". Sunderland Echo. 12 August 2009. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 26 August 2014.